FTP backend for Duplicity Discloses Passwords to Process Listing
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Sep 22, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 4, 2007
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Reviewed
Sep 22, 2023
Last updated
Sep 22, 2023
The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.
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